Re:Wine tasting is bullshit
by firebones on Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:45PM
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In the same way that being able to tell the difference between good and bad code takes time for a novice. Just because you have to learn to distinguish what makes some code more easily understood, easier to maintain, more robust, etc., doesn't make the notion of telling good from bad a bogus pursuit.
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The code analogy is silly. With wine (or food) we're talking about a fundamental sense we all have. Everyone can eat and drink and either the stuff tastes good to people or it doesn't. And that's the point of the food/drink to begin with. The point of code is not generally to appeal to novices' innate sense of code aesthetics.
Chef: You stupid amateurs could never appreciate my noodles!
Tampopo: But people who eat noodles are all amateurs. So why make noodles amateurs can't appreciate?